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[gautsome]

[There's no vibrant smile when Sylvain opens the line. There isn't even a Sylvain for that matter. It's just text on a screen, a message carefully tapped out.]

Hey.
I'm looking to talk to someone who has left this place and come back again. Either actually leaving, or just that weird sleeping thing.
I... Have some questions. I could really use some help.

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>Private

[gautsome]

Oh. Hey Sash.
One second.

[He switches over to a private channel. The consensus amongst their group had been to protect their youngest from learning about what returning to their world would entail.]

You didn't remember anything when you went back, right?
Just... one big blank slate. No cute creatures, no friends you made along the way, nothing.

>Private

[lordofthefries]

[Good that he's figured out how to lock conversations. That's still eluding her.]

no
i didnt remember anything
it was like i never left home at all

[gautsome]

Right. Okay. On the same page then.

How did you deal with it when you came back? Here, I mean.
If nothing we do matters... what's the point?

[lordofthefries]

i guess there is no point
but coming back here was better than being over there
i was about to die there
here i dont have to worry about that anymore

[Or so she thinks. She was very convinced she was about to meet her end and nothing can convince her otherwise.]

[gautsome]

Do you think it's easier, knowing that there is nothing to go back to?
I... have a whole life ahead of me, you see. But it isn't a life I want.
Hell, maybe that makes me selfish. Spoiled. Something like that. At least I get to be alive, right?